worker focused on pre-school education (for children aged 3-5) in the world's largest public early-childhood program: India …'s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). Adding a worker doubled net instructional time and led to 0.29 and 0.46 standard …Despite growing interest in improving early-childhood education in developing countries, there is little evidence on …

Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in … relationship between income and child development in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Treated mothers and children experienced large … explanatory factor for the poor translation of increases in income into child growth in India …